The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-06
READING FOR THE LADIES.
Items of News and Gossip Picked Up ia
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Items of News and Gossip Picked Up Ia i
About New York.
Written for the Journal by Eliza Pitnam Heaton
Shall I show you the very latest" queried a
Broadway jeweler, the other day, as he ex-
tended to me handful of cream white hya-
cinths in their perfection Of bloom. took the
bunch of fragrance, when, even as bent over
it there burst from the heart of each blossom q
radiant glow, and held in my hand q pyramid
of dazzling white light. It was the last applica-
ton Of electricity seized upon by Dame Fashion,
and made subservient whether it would or no to
the whims and caprices of her toilet The fairies
in 'Ioanthe" wore diadems of light, but flesh
and blood damsels with no stage glamour about
them may now, if they so choose. dance the ger
man with radiance brighter than that of any
Jewel flashing from the flowers on their corsage
or In their hair. There is tiny case to be car
ried 10 the pocket or concealed about the person
which contains the votaic cells for the supply OF
the electric light. From the poles OF the battery
pass. SO the jeweler showed ne. the connecting
wires, very fine and eilk-covered. which lead to
the microscopic lamp concealed in the heart of
the flower The current may be turned on or
shut off at WILL and the beauty who feels oil
surety that her charms will endure the illumina-
ton may light up the blossoms that she wears or
any part OF them at her pleasure. Roses and
haf-opened buds of all sorts that shut about the
favorites for the experiment thus far.
Mrs. Helen Jackson wonder why people
still persist in speaking of her as Helen Hunt
Jackson as if it were not enough to give up
ones own name for husbands without being
dubbed by the titles of two husbands at once
has left her mark on this big country Of ours,
whether it is in the way she wished or not. The
book of her affections, 'Romona." that last effort
whose failure as she reckoned it, to awaken any
general interest in the wrongs Of the Indians
was sore spot in her heart when she died. has
found a not often reckoned on in the pros
pectus of novel or the calculations of an author
it has named town. In the opening mp OF
southern California by the ubiquitous real estate
Spectator site is more persistently advertised
more glowingly pulled than ''the new town
ship of 'Komona,' only six miles from the city of
Los Angeles, sheltered by the beautiful foothills
of the San Gabriel valley with six express trains
daily, and alluvial soil, we'll adapted to the
cultivation of oranges and lemons; no oppressive
heat no FROST no high winds" A paradise
truly. Let as go to it wnen We winter in the
South.
It is noticeable to what an extent the taste for
literary circles is developing in New York, and
how frequently the guild collects of an evening
about some bright woman whose skill in enter
tanning, whose tact in adapting guest to guest,
or whose personal magnetism brings OUT all tno
people of the city best worth seeing 1t is as it
was in the days of the Carey sisters, save that
the centers of attraction are more numerous and
daily multiplying. Mrs. Frank Leslie has ap-
propriated Thursday evening Saturday is sacred
to Miss Mary L. Booth and Friday to Mrs. John
Sherwood Jennie June has always pleasant
group about her Mondays Mrs. Lille Dever-
end Blake is usually at home Tuesdays and
Mrs. Edmund Clarence Stedman is one of the
attractions that call together her husbands
guests on Wednesdays. Miss Kate Sanborn is
one of this winters acquisitions, and will have
her own group of adherents about her ere long
There is petition in circulation in New York
for the appointment of half dozen women on
the corps of tenement-house inspectors. 1t is
being largely signed, hear. and indeed it is diff
icult to see how anybody could withhold his
name who is familiar with the work DR.. Anna
| Danil and others have done among the tenement
| house dwellers. The increased activity of wom-
| en- everywhere in what one might call munich
pal housekeeping affairs, is noticeable this win
| ter. Mrs M. f. Pierce, whose work on co-opera-
tive housekeeping attracted some little attention
| two or three years ago, has been calling meet
| ings of New York women to discuss the better
| cleaning of the streets The appointment Of
| women matrons to take charge of women at
| the police stations has been asked for in Brook
| Ign, and is being discussed in Boston, while Chi
| caeo coneratulates herself and scatters her
| vaunts broadcast over the county upon the ex-
cellent results of the system in that city.
The strife of the cook-books is amusing. The
woman suffragsts of Boston published one vol
ume. at their bazaar, in fremont Temple and
realized a eoodly sum from its SALE Now the
| womans rights recipes have penetrated as fal
| into the free and bounding West as Chicago. and
| forward steps that citys Woman's Club with the
| characteristic Chicagoan claim that its own pri
vate and particular kitchen manual is as good al
anything ao better the That hs0 . san fn ,ss
an suffrage cook book, by the way, follow
ing the well-trodden old turnpike road t.
the masculine heart through the masculine
stomach. has made a curious hit, striking home
where voleys of logic might have been shot il
vain. MIS- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, see, &C
| cording to the reports of the newspaper CORE
spondents who have taken the opportunity of hel
| husbands death to write a paragraph about her
has given up her woman suffrage hobby alto
gether. It is noteworthy fact, the correspond
ents to the contrary Notwithstanding, that Mrs
Stanton is still president of one of the two chic
| organizationsin the country devoted to the pur
| suit of the ballot for the sex feminine, the Ma
| tional Woman Suffrage Association
Mrs. Cleveland no doubt enjoys her popular
ity, but when one newspaper, in the freean
easy way of sociable guild, falls into the habi
of calling her ''our little frankie, the bright sta
of the administration" another dubs her s'sweet
heart. third pet fourth 'orr daisy"
fifth ''roguish Frank" and sixth "Frapkie
dear, the guiding genius Of the Nation" then i
must be refreshing to fall back now and the
on the other extreme Of deferential respect t
which the vendors of patent medicines an
toilet articles 60 when they vaunt their pal
ticular nostruma as patronized by 1.-THE Hor
orable Mrs Grover Cleveland, the President
lady"
The vassar Alumnm gave President Taylo
the heartiest of receptions at the Hotel Brun.
} wick, New York. the other day. There are fe,
institutions in the country whose graduates tax
such an active interest in the affairs Of theI
alma mater. and are so ready to raise money
forward her interests. The funds for the gym
nasium building and for the endowment OF Pro
Maria Mitchells chair of astronomy are in
fourishing condition. and substantial contrib,
tions were made at the reception.